Saturday, July 17, 2010

Gulf turtle evacuees could get lost at sea - environment - 15 July 2010 - New Scientist

Gulf turtle evacuees could get lost at sea

Scientists in the US have been collecting sea turtle eggs from oil affected coastlines and have been incubating and hatching them indoors (50 thousand plus!). They plan to release them from Atlantic Ocean facing beaches. However, specialists suggest they should release them into the Gulf Stream, otherwise their internal navigation systems (that are programmed from their laying site) may cause them to get lost.

1 comment:

twisty said...

This whole spill is one big travesty...

and they're saying theres around 3000+ old abandoned well heads in the gulf alone..now whats the life span of a well head..imagine our grand kids having all these cemented "dead head" wells suddenly deteriorate and start spewing...